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Mother charged with child endangerment after 7-year-old daughter shoots 11-year-old son while playing with gun

February 18, 2020 at 3:55 p.m.

A West Side mother is facing misdemeanor child endangerment charges after her young daughter wounded her older brother while playing with a handgun, authorities said. The Valentine's Day shooting at...

Senn High School student arrested after sit-in protest, authorities say

February 12, 2020 at 9:50 p.m.

A 15-year-old Senn High School student was arrested Wednesday for shoving a school administrator to the floor during a sit-in protest at the Edgewater school, authorities said. Chicago police responded...

Dozens of Chinatown residents and supporters listen in as Terry Wilson, foreground, speaks to the media at the Leighton Criminal Courthouse, Feb. 11, 2020, following a bond hearing for Alvin Thomas. Thomas is facing two counts of first degree murder for a double homicide in Chinatown early Sunday.

Woman hid under SUV as gunman killed husband and a friend in Chinatown parking lot, prosecutors say

February 12, 2020 at 2:06 p.m.

The woman was just getting out of her SUV when she heard shots, then noticed her husband was no longer standing on the other side. Ducking underneath the car, she...

DNA, witnesses, social media link ex-boyfriend to woman found dead in bathtub year and a half ago: prosecutors

February 11, 2020 at 7:00 a.m.

Four days before a young mother was discovered dead in her bathtub, her hands and feet tied, her ex-boyfriend was recorded on social media inside her apartment and was the...

Chicago police secure a crime scene on East 71st Street between Michigan Avenue and Wabash Avenue after a store clerk was shot in an attempted armed robbery Feb. 7, 2020.

Parolee recruited 4 people, including 3 teens, to help with armed robbery that left beloved store owner dead, prosecutors say

February 10, 2020 at 8:21 a.m.

A South Side parolee with a history of committing armed robberies recruited three teenage relatives and a fourth person to rob a Park Manor convenience store, prosecutors said Sunday. But...

Busker Michael Malinowski jams for CTA Red Line commuters at the State and Lake subway station in 2017. He was stabbed while performing this week.

Musician talks about getting stabbed on Red Line: ‘I was bleeding out everywhere. I just lit a cigarette, sat on a bench and watched her destroy my (stuff)’

February 7, 2020 at 8:25 a.m.

Michael Malinowski, known as "Machete Mike" to riders of the Red Line where he regularly plays guitar, had just been stabbed by a woman angry his music was giving her...

Judge denies bail for man with history of robbery and gun arrests charged with shooting on Blue Line train at UIC-Halsted stop

February 6, 2020 at 7:56 p.m.

A man with an arrest record going back 15 years has been charged with shooting a passenger on the Blue Line as it pulled into the UIC-Halsted stop, then grabbing...

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